The Guide to Keywords and Concepts for International Students in Art, Media and Design
This welcome new resource for international students in art, design, and media provides clear explanations of the terminology they must master in order to fulfill their academic potential and enrich their professional careers. • A much-requested new resource that fills a gap in the academic market • Tailored specifically to the needs of international students in art, design, and media • Color-coded key words and phrases for quick reference • Includes sections on study skills, academic expectations in Western institutions, methodologies, and important theorists • An ideal handbook for curators and gallery staff everywhere for whom English is a non-native language.
Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that complex tasks should promote greater accuracy and complexity of speech and writing, as well as more interaction, and learning of information provided in the input to task performance, than simpler tasks. Implications are drawn concerning the basic pedagogic claim of the Cognition Hypothesis, that tasks should be sequenced for learners from simple to complex during syllabus design.
Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts. Covering a wide range of teachingùlearning contexts and offering in-depth analyses of ESL/EFL language curriculum design issues, this casebook is distinctive and unique in that each case draws on and is clearly linked to a single model presented in Nation and Macalister's Language Curriculum Design (www.routledge. com/9780415806060), giving the book a high degree of coherence. A short commentary by the editors after each case highlights features of note and/or issues arising from it.
For learners of English, Design for Drama features a number of plays that are adapted from well-known American short stories and poems. The stories represented are “The Marriages” by Henry James, “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry, “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce, and “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Design for Drama is recommended for high-intermediate and advanced learners of English.
Literacy by Design provides direct instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, and writing, as well as many different opportunities for students to practice skills in these areas. The program connects instruction to content areas through texts linked to science and social studies themes that correlate to grade-level national standards.
